question about how to configure DMS

Hello, from what I have read so far about DMS, I think it will do what I want but want to confirm a few things.

My site will have different types of documents that the user community can view, but I want the end user to click on different links to view a particular document. For example, there will be a link called “Meeting Minutes”. User clicks on that link and can view documents that are for meeting minutes.

My question is this…when configuring DMS, how should I group like documents together? Can DMS allow for the assignment of a category to each document so when the user makes that query for “Meeting Minutes”, only those docs display, or do the docs need to be placed in separate folders to do this type of query?

I did notice that someone posted a question creating links to a folder, and looks easy to do, but just wanted to see what is the best way to configure documents this way in DMS.

Thanks!